[78-L] St Louis Blues?

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
> Hmm...wonder what it meant to"reach #4" in those days?  How many copies 
> were
> selling?
>
#4 according to Whitburn?! Basically...SFA!! His (de)famed attempts to 
recreate
"Billboard charts" from years WELL before such had been created were/are 
NOTED
for "terminal inaccuracy"...!! His method SEEMS to have been, "Well, this 
artist is
famous currently (i.e. "Well, *I* have heard of him!!") and the song is 
well-known
(to me, anyway...?!)...so it MUST have been a major hit!!" Meanwhile, many 
of us
collectors are STILL searching for "gold records"...?!?! FEH!!

> Maybe I just hadn't noticed it before,   as in my early days of collecting 
> I
> didn't pay much attention to 12" records (yes,  that was pretty stoopid on
> my part).
>
For that matter, neither did record buyers of that era...first, they were 
more
expensive...and second they often were broken when stored among
10" discs (as they often were)...! Trying to reach "complete" status when
artists have issued 12" discs is ALWAYS more difficult!!

> Anyone else have any personal observations about the scarcity (or not) of
> this Prince's record of St. Louis Blues?
>
Only that I don't think it is among my 55,000-plus shellac archives...?!

Steven C. Barr